The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-03-31
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

| killed at Mount Miggs, Ala, a few days
| ago, while resisting arrest. He had open.
| ly defied the officers and sworc he would
] kill or be killed before he woul d surren.
der. His two step-sOns were wounded.
| The Sidney family was terror TO the
| community.
Moses Miller, colored man living in
| Lynchburg, Va, choked his wife to death
a few nights ago, and then cut his own
throat. Miller may possibly recover.
Jealousy is assigned as the cause Of the
| murder.
The Governor OF Louisiana has of cred
Ieward for the conviction Of the persons
| implicated in outrages recently commit.
ted in the parish Of West Carroll against
! Polish Jews, with the view of driving
them out Of the community.
Mingo Jones, negro, was tried recently
at Memphis, Tenn, for the murder OF the
JUST family on tn Pigeon II ,ost road and
was declared not guilty. AS Jones has
| sentence Of ninety-nine years in the peni-
tentiary for the poisoning of woman
over him, his acquittal is of little moment
to him.
| 1t is stated that the widow of President
Polk keeps all her husbands private ef-
fects in his old office at Nashville, Tenn,
quite undsturbed.
Julia Darrow, colored, one hundred and
eight years old, supposed to be the oldest
woman in the State, died recently at
| Gloversville, Ky. She was born in Mont
| gomerv County in 1719 and was slave on
the Colonel Sammons farm. She remained
there until sold to her late husband at the
age of sixteen for $3.50 She was the
mother of seventeen children, three OF
whom survive her. She leaves considera
bic property
| The North Carolina Legislature at its
recent session, passed an act, which is a
copy of the New York law, prohibiting the
| publication of lottery advertis sements in
| North Carolina. The penalty is severe,
| and the pub isher of a newspaper is in
dictable in any county where it circulates
if it contains such an advertisement The
| first paper to be indicted is the Whining.
ton star.
John B. Simmons, a highly respected
merchant doing bus ness a short distance
from Russellville, KY, was murdered by
| unknown parties a few nights ago, and
the money in the store and on his person,
only a small amount, was taken. The
most intense excitement prevailed in the
neighborhood of the tragedy
party OF St. Louis capitalists and
others having a desire to see the bOoms
and boomlets in process of development
| in the South. have recently been do ng
| the centers of attraction in Tennessee and
Alabama.
Arthur j. Durbn, one of the Oldest and
best known Catholic priests in the West,
died at Shelbyville, Ky, a few days ago,
| III his eighty-eighth year. He was buried
from the Cathedral in Louisville.
or the one hundred soldiers who went
from Sullivan County, Tenn, to take part
in the Mexican war twelve are living.
half million dollar hotel is amO g the
contemplated improvements at Birming
ham, Ala this spring
Negotiations are in progress with Gin
cinnati firm TO establish a large rolling
mill at Decatur, Ala.
Iron and coal have been discovered at
Mansfield. La, and the Inhabitants of the
place are busily werking up a boom look
ing to the development of their burie
| treasures.
An immense meat curing establishment
is 10 be pvt up at Colorado City, Tex,
using a new chemi' al rrC Ccess recently
discovered, which preserves dres 'ed
meats better and cheaper than by refrig-
Grafton.
Michael Fiaherty one of the crew ofthe
snag- boat John r. Megs. now operating
in the Tallahatchie river. was drowned a
few days ago by the upsetting of a skiff in
which he was ,rcssi' g the river with tive
other men. Flaherty was from st. Louis,
and was an cd s cam boatman.
Hon. John Sherman received q deputa-
tion of colored men at the metropolitan
Hotel Birm ngnam, Ala, during his stay
In thai city recent V, who presented him
with an address igh'y fiattering and
compl mertary to the Ohio states man. &c
which Mr. Sherman made brief but
cordial response.
The largest single sale of cotton on
rCcold was made at Galveston Tex, a
few days ago. j. P Wills 4 Brr. sold
6 so bales, stored in hat city, to Messrs
Kauf1m n q Runge for an amount ap-
proximatin 1910, GOO.
Jerucia, a Mexican woman, twenty
years of age, while sitting alone in front
of a fire at her home near Sn AntoTin
Tex, a few evening since, fell. in an
epileptic fit, into the burning emhers, and
when rescued by a p"ssing nelghbor was
found to be so badly burned that her re
covery was impossible.
The Female seminary at Franklin, Ky.
was destroyed by fire few days ago
Loss, $1,000; no insurance
large cotton factory is to be erccte !
at Columbus, Miss, on the site of the old
Jail in that city, which was recent Y pur-
chased by the Tombigbee Cotton Factory
Company. new and improved Jail is to
be erected at once upon property secured
by the county for that purpose.
Fire a few nights ago destroyed foui
stores on Dryades street, New Orleans.
The loss is estimated at $4,000; fully in
sured. The following were burned out:
J. T. McKenna, grocery; Boyland's
crockery store; Gimble's shoe store and
an adjoining furnit ure store.
James Thomas, Sr., father of John w
Thomas, president of the Nashville, Chat
tanooga a. S.. Louis railway, died a few
days ago, aged eighty five years. The de-
ceased was well known and highly re-
spected.
The trial of Ike Vincent, the defaulting
captured ex-State Treasurer of Alabama,
has been set for April II. AttOrney-Gen-
eral Mcclellan will assist in the prosecu-
ton, which the Governor says will be Wig
orous.
At Somerset, Ky, VIM. Bates, deputy
United States marshal, shot man named
Cheney through the heart, a few nights
ago, at State Line, little station on the
Tennessee line The men had been gam
bling and quarreled. Though but thirty
years of age, this is said TO be the seventh
life brought to a sudden close by Bates
revolver He is a small, inoffe 1sive-l look
ing man, and is said never TO have beer
the aggressor in any affair of blood il
which he had hand.
The equinox brought frost.
Mr. William Paxton, who lived in the
upper edge of Lancaster County, s. C..